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Rita McGrath's Harvard Business Review post about Progressive Insurance's innovative idea for charging each driver a fair premium is ready for prime time was re-posted by Bloomberg BusinessWeek here.

• Posted: Monday, February 14, 2011

Rita McGrath's contribution to Long Range Planning is mentioned in this OrganizationsandMarkets.com post.

• Posted: Monday, January 31, 2011

In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls, Rita McGrath disagrees with the authors of a BusinessWeek article, Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs.

• Posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2011

What are the ways you can recognize warnings in real-time that your business is under attack? Business consultant Rita McGrath offers three such signposts in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. They are:

1. Fewer innovations. The first sign is when next-generation innovations offer smaller and smaller improvements. “If your people have trouble thinking of new ways to enhance your offering, that’s a sign,” McGrath says.
2. Customers tell you. If you listen to your customers, they will be happy to tell you when new alternatives are increasingly acceptable to them.
3. Bottom line problems. Problems start to show up in your financials or other performance indicators.

Rita McGrath's most recent Harvard Business Review article is cited here.

• Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2011

HotelInteractive.com quotes Rita McGrath in an article about deflating stress: "There is a big body of research that shows stress is highly correlated with people feeling unable to control the variables that are relevant to addressing the situation,” McGrath said. “The first thing I would look at, as a manger, is what are the particular sets of problems that people on the front lines are likely to encounter and how can I give them as much control as possible to address those situations?” To read the entire post, click here.

• Posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011